Getting Clojure by Olsen, Russ -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Getting Clojure

About the Pragmatic Bookshelf Table of Contents Early Praise for Getting Clojure: Build Your Functi onal Skills One Idea at a Time Acknowledgments Preface

Who Is This Book For? How Is This Book Organized? About the Code Examples Online Resources

Pa rt 1 Basics

Chapter 1: Hello, Clojure

The Very Basics Arithmetic Not Variable Assignment, but Close A Function of Your Own In the Wild Staying Out of Trouble Wrapping Up

Chapter 2: Vectors and Lists

One Thing After Another A Toolkit of Functions Growing Your Vectors Lists Lists versus Vectors Staying Out of Trouble In the Wild Wrapping Up

Chapter 3: Maps, Keywords, and Sets

This Goes with That Keywords Changing Your Map Without Changing It Other Handy Map Functions Sets In the Wild Staying Out of Trouble Wrapping Up

Chapter 4: Logic

The Fundamental If Asking Questions Truthy and Falsy Do and When Dealing with Multiple Conditions Throwing and Catching In the Wild Staying Out of Trouble Wrapping Up

Chapter 5: More Capable Functions

One Function, Different Parameters Arguments with Wild Abandon Multimethods Deeply Recursive Docstrings Pre and Post Conditions Staying Out of Trouble In the Wild Wrapping Up

Chapter 6: Functional Things

Functions Are Values Functions on the Fly A Functional Toolkit Function Literals In the Wild Staying Out of Trouble Wrapping Up

Chapter 7: Let

A Local, Temporary Place for Your Stuff Let Over Fn Variations on the Theme In the Wild Staying Out of Trouble Wrapping Up

Chapter 8: Def, Symbols, and Vars

A Global, Stable Place for Your Stuff Symbols Are Things Bindings Are Things Too Varying Your Vars Staying Out of Trouble In the Wild Wrapping Up

Chapter 9: Namespaces

A Place for Your Vars Loading Namespaces A Namespace of Your Own As and Refer Namespaces, Symbols, and Keywords In the Wild Staying Out of Trouble Wrapping Up

Part 2: Intermediate

Chapter 10: Sequences

One Thing After Another A Universal Interface A Rich Toolkit … … Made Richer with Functional Values Map Reduce Composing a Solution Other Sources of Sequences In the Wild Staying Out of Trouble Wrapping Up

Chapter 11: Lazy Sequences

Sequences Without End More Interesting Laziness Lazy Friends Laziness in Practice Behind the Scenes Staying Out of Trouble In the Wild Wrapping Up

Chapter 12: Destructuring

Pry Open Your Data Getting Less than Everything Destructuring in Sequence Destructuring Function Arguments Digging into Maps Diving into Nested Maps The Final Frontier: Mixing and Matching Going Further Staying Out of Trouble In the Wild Wrapping Up

Chapter 13: Records and Protocols

The Trouble with Maps Striking a More Specific Bargain with Records Records Are Maps The Record Advantage Protocols Decentralized Polymorphism Record Confusion In the Wild Staying Out of Trouble Wrapping Up

Chapter 14: Tests

Spotting Bugs with clojure.test Testing Namespaces and Projects Property-Based Testing Checking Properties Staying Out of Trouble In the Wild Wrapping Up

Chapter 15: Spec

This Is the Data You’re Looking For Spec’ing Collections Registering Specs Spec’ing Maps (Again) Why? Why? Why? Function Specs Spec-Driven Tests Staying Out of Trouble In the Wild Wrapping Up

Part 3: Advanced

Chapter 16: Interoperating with Java

A Peek at Java … … And Back to Clojure Packages Class Methods and Fields In the Wild Staying Out of Trouble Wrapping Up

Chapter 17: Threads, Promises, and Futures

Great Power … … And Great Responsibility Good Fences Make Happy Threads Promise Me a Result A Value with a Future Staying Out of Trouble In the Wild Wrapping up

Chapter 18: State

It’s Made of Atoms Swapping Maps Refs: Team-Oriented Atoms Agents Choose Wisely In the Wild Staying Out of Trouble Wrapping Up

Chapter 19: Read and Eval

You Got Data On My Code! Reading and Evaluating The Homoiconic Advantage An Eval of Your Own In the Wild Staying Out of Trouble Wrapping Up

Chapter 20: Macros

There Are Three Kinds of Numbers in the World Macros to the Rescue Easier Macros with Syntax Quoting In the Wild Staying Out of Trouble Wrapping Up

Chapter 21: Conclusion